At Long Last, Porn Is Getting Its Very Own Academic Journal
LatestSmutty doodles, nudie pixxx, and elaborately-staged sex shows were important way before the Internet, but the Internet greatly facilitates the dissemination (te-he-he) of porn, so it only makes sense that academics have decided that the world can no longer do without an academic journal (that no one will ever read) dedicated to all things pornographic.
According to the Guardian, Porn Studies is a Routledge academic periodical dedicated to porn and edited by Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith. It will debut next spring, and a call for papers appeared earlier this week soliciting submissions for, in the editors’ words, “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic.” It’s about time.